Review of Directed Energy Technology for Countering Rockets, Artillery, and Mortars (RAM) Abbreviated Version (2008) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 11-18
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Previous positions within the scientific community were the following: deputy director, Space Sciences Laboratory, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; director, Space Power Institute, and professor, electrical engineering, Auburn University; and senior research scientist, Naval Surface Warfare Center. He has had a distinguished career involving progressively more responsible experience in performing and managing basic and applied research in the physical sciences and advanced technologies associated with space, shock wave physics, energy conversion, electronic warfare, directed energy technology, and space power technology.
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; Ground-Based Laser ASAT; and Ballistic Missile Defense. He managed the evolution of high-energy electron beam pumped excimer lasers; free electron lasers; long-life, high-repetition-rate discharge pumped excimer lasers; early diode pumped solid-state lasers; and advanced atmospheric compensation technologies.
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Dr. Canavan has consulted on a number of panels, including these: the DARPA Directed Energy Panel, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency Graybeard Panel, the Missile Defense Agency Senior Advisory Group, the Defense Policy Board, the NASA Earth Systems Science and Applications Advisory Committee, the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Global Climate Research, and the White House Science Council Military Panel.
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Rackham School of Graduate Studies, where he oversees the graduate portfolio of 30 departments in engineering, the physical sciences, and mathe matics. Professor Gallimore is also on the faculty of the applied physics program at the University of Michigan, is the director of the NASA-funded Michigan Space Grant Consortium, and is project director of the NSF-funded Michigan AGEP Alliance.
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In 1985, Dr. Hingorani received the Uno Lamm Award of the IEEE Power Engineering Society for outstanding contributions in highvoltage, direct current technology; in 1995, he received the 1995 IEEE Lamme Gold Medal for leadership and pioneering contributions to the transmission and distribution of electric power, and in 2005 received the Benjamin Franklin Institute Bower award and prize for achievement in science.
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He performed and published original analyses of aero-optical performance of externally cooled windows, uncooled optical dome and window thermal radiance, stresses, and optical aberrations; discrimination capability of one-, two-, and three-color passive optical and laser measurements; i nterceptor testbed flight test planning; testing techniques for image-motion compensation for strap-down seekers; performance of various infrared imagers for
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He wrote original interceptor flyout computer programs for window heating, window emission noise, and target signal-to-noise ratio. He also wrote original computer program for end-game guidance and control to determine seeker resolution and accuracy effect on miss distance.
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He has published more than 65 papers and has four patents. He is an active life member of the American Physical Society.
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